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The
Palace
is
divided
into
three
functional
parts
–
the
residence
of
the
royal
family,
a
luxury Taj
Palace
Hotel,
and
a
Museum
focusing
on
the
20th-century
history
of
the
Jodhpur
Royal
Family.
The
palace
complex
is
set
in
an
area
of
26
acres
(11 ha)
of
land
including
15
acres
(6.1 ha)
of
gardens.
The
palace
consists
of
a
throne
chamber,
a
private
meeting
hall,
a Durbar
Hall to
meet
the
public,
a
vaulted banquet
hall,
private
dining
halls,
a
ballroom,
a
library,
an
indoor
swimming
pool
and
spa,
a
billiards
room,
four
tennis
courts,
two
marble
squash
courts, and
long
passages.
The
interior
central
dome
sits
above
the
sky
blue
inner
dome.
The
inner
vaulted
dome
is
a
major
attraction
in
the
palace
which
rises
to
103
feet
(31 m)
in
the
interior
part
which
is
capped
by
an
outer
dome
of
43
feet
(13 m)
height.
The
entry
to
the
palace
has
decorations
of
the Coat
of
arms of
the
Rathore
Royal
family.
The
entry
leads
to
the
lobby
which
has
polished black
granite flooring.
The
lounge
area
has
pink
sandstone
and
marble
floors. Maharaja
Gaj
Singh,
known
as
"bapji",
stays
in
a
part
of
the
palace.
The
principal
architecture
of
the
palace
is
an
amalgam
of Indo-Saracenic, Classical
Revival and Western
Art
Deco styles.
It
is
also
said the
Maharaja
and
his
architect
Lanchester
had
considered
the
features
of Buddhist and Hindu edifices
such
as
the
Temple
Mountain-Palaces
of Burma and Cambodia,
and
in
particular
the Angkor
Wat in
preparing
the
layout
and
design
of
the
palace. The
interior
of
the
palace
is
in
art
deco
design. The
interior
decoration
is
credited
to
J.S.
Norblin,
a
refugee
from Poland,
who
created
the frescoes in
the
throne
room
on
the
east
wing.
An
architectural
historian
commented
that
"it
is
the
finest
example
of
Indo-deco.
The
forms
are
crisp
and
precise".
The
hotel
wing
of
the
palace
is
run
by
the
Taj
Group
of
Hotels
and
is
called
the
'Taj
Umaid
Bhawan
Palace
Jodhpur. The
famous Bollywood actress Priyanka
Chopra married Nick
Jonas here
in
2018.
The
museum
has
exhibits
of
stuffed
leopards,
a
very
large
symbolic
flag
given
to Maharaja
Jaswant
Singh by Queen
Victoria in
1877,
lighthouse
shapes. The
classic
cars
of
the
Maharajas
are
also
on
display
in
the
garden
in
front
of
the
museum.
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